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difference in the speed of the fastest trains here and there; but there are more of them there than we have. From

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Dimensions, Weight, and Approximate Prices of Locomotives.

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Locomotive for Suburban Traffic. (h) By the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia.

48 to 53 miles an hour, including stops, is about the fastest time made by any regular trains on the summer time-tables. When this rate of speed is compared with that of sixty or seventy miles an hour, which is not infrequent for short distances, there seems to be a great discrepancy. It must be kept in mind, though, that these high rates of speed are attained under very favorable conditions. That is, the track is straight and level, or perhaps descending, and unobstructed. In ordinary traffic it is never certain that the line is clear. A locomotive runner must always be on the look-out for obstructions. Trains, ordinary vehicles, a fallen tree or rock, cows and people may be in the way at any moment. Let anyone imagine himself in responsible charge of a locomotive and he will readily understand that, with the slightest suspicion that the line is not clear, he would slacken the speed as a precautionary measure. For this reason fast time on a railroad depends as much on having a good signal system to assure the locomotive runners

that the line is clear, as it does on the locomotives. If he is always liable to encounter, and must be on the look-out for obstructions at frequent grade crossings of common roads, or if he is not certain whether the train in front of him is out of his way or not, the locomotive runner will be nervous and be almost sure to lose time. If the speed is to be increased on American railroads, the first steps should be to carry all streets and common roads either over or under the lines, have the lines well fenced, provide abundant side-tracks

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"Forney" Tank Locomotive. (1) By the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N. J.

for trains, and adopt efficient systems of signals so that locomotive runners can know whether the line is clear or not.

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